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The Dumbass DJ is, as the name suggests, a radio host ("disc jockey") who is a loud, obnoxious boor who makes moronic quips between songs. When used in fiction, the character is almost always intended to be unlikable; expect everyone else to respond with open derision and hatred. In the very rare cases that you're supposed to like them, they frequently become The Scrappy, a Creator's Pet or (if very lucky) So Bad, It's Good. Stereotypical Dumbass DJs hold a morning slot for a Top-40 station, and try (sometimes successfully) to amuse their audience with Toilet Humor, Vulgar Humor, and ridiculous overacting. Expect them to describe themselves as "wacky," "crazy," or "edgy," insult callers and guests, and scream half of their lines. If they're a pair, expect one to be named after an animal. See also Large Ham Radio; Shock Jock. |
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Louis C.K. on Louie suffers through a phone interview with some radio idiots ("Tracer, Pig, and The Hole") to promote an upcoming show. The idiots are basically unintelligible except for a few stretches here and there; Louie just endures their prattle and it's not clear whether he can't understand them or just doesn't care. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: "The Gang Dances Their Asses Off" features "Power 102, the Zoo Crew," as performed by the Sklar Brothers. Dennis, Dee and Frank try to start an intelligent internet talk radio show, but quickly descend into zoo crew idiocy. |
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The Simpsons: In "Bart's Elephant", two idiot DJs end up owing Bart Simpson an elephant or risk losing their job to a machine, which comes pre-programmed with "inane chatter": The writers admit on a DVD commentary that they think Radio DJing is the lowest rung on the entertainment ladder, and attracts the worst performers. Marge's nervous breakdown comes to a head when she hears two DJs trick a man into thinking his wife died in an accident, with them laughing while the man starts crying about how he just talked to her. |
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Parks and Recreation has Crazy Ira and The Douche, whose shows revolve around fart and sex jokes. The soundboard operator looks like he wants to kill himself. The Douche is revealed to have some Hidden Depths, as he had actually graduated Northwestern with an impressive communications degree and had originally only moved to Pawnee to help take care of his grandmother, and he emphasizes he's cooked up The Douche as a character for the show, but his off-air behavior hints the The Douche persona did become part of his actual personality over time. | |
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In Hi-de-Hi!, which is set in a 1950s holiday camp, Gladys is Radio Maplin's DJ. She spends all her time making unfunny, stilted jokes, trolling for gifts from the campers, and indulging her delusion that she can sing. | |
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In Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, one of the signs of the changes that North Norfolk Digital is going through is that the morning show is now hosted by a team of these. | |
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Shakes the Clown featured a brief bit with a pair of DJs who were actually named Loud and Obnoxious. | |
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Would you believe Oscar the Grouch was one for a while? One episode of Sesame Street had him get his own radio show called "The Can", which consisted mainly of insulting people who called in. Bonus points for answering the phone "You're on The Can!" | |
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The Xavier: Renegade Angel episode "Signs from Godrilla" features "Succotash and the Bird", a Christian radio show featuring a motor mouth host, constant abuse of sound effects, and frequent segues into asking listeners to "Call us up and win some cash!" | |
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A Derrick Comedy sketch involves two of these stuck in their recording room due to the "Wolfpocalypse" while still keeping up their schtick. | |
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Nearly every DJ in the Grand Theft Auto universe is obnoxious or dysfunctional in some way or another. One admits to cannibalism. See GTA Radio for more. | |
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"The Tim and Phil Morning Show" skits on Martin/Molloy were about a pair of DJs who attempt to be this but are woefully ill-equipped to pull it off. | |
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Leslie Willis a.k.a Livewire of Superman: The Animated Series was one of these before becoming a supervillain. She spent much of her airtime denouncing and mocking Superman in order to get reactions. Her transformation was the result of hosting a concert in a thunderstorm despite the police and Superman trying to talk some sense into her about the danger — in fact, she went so far as to rile up the crowd in order to prevent the police from shutting the event down. | |
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Sam & Fuzzy inverts this trope with DJ Positive, a DJ whose on-air persona was being excessively cheery and good-natured and wanting all his listeners to have a lovely day. Naturally, this put him on Fridge's bad side, who lived up to his death threats the moment he got a mobile body. | |
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A sketch in Big Train is about a terrible pun making DJ who repeatedly interrupts the start of a song to make stupid puns on the word "Bean", until he runs out of puns and goes down into a basement to yell at a group of chained children who were supposed to be writing his jokes for him. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged features obnoxious radio hosts TJ and the Wombat, who fit this trope to a T. They seem like an unrelated distraction to the plot until Cell calls them and asks if they can put on Video Killed the Radio Star... In History of Trunks Abridged they're still around in Future Trunks' time, keeping track of the androids' carnage and being as tasteless as possible about it. However, a comment by Trunks implies that they're still keeping up their obnoxious personas as a coping mechanism due to constantly living under the threat of the androids. |
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Inverted in their series Qwerpline, in which G-Money seems pretty sensible and in Nsburg is almost certainly the sanest person there. His cohost A-Train has his quirks, but is still less crazy than almost everyone they interact with, and turns out to make a pretty good alderman after being accidentally elected. | |
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Downplayed example: Wink Wilkinson (John Candy) from Little Shop of Horrors. Likely modeled on Murray the K. | |
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Mighty Magiswords has a fairly subdued example of "Tree-J and the Wolf", who run the WDDF radio station located in the Deepest Darkest Forest. Tree-J talks like an obnoxious Large Ham DJ but is otherwise harmless and generous with giving out prizes, but "The Wolf" is the worst part of the two of them. The Wolf is prone to sneaking up behind characters and unleashing a barrage of air horns just to make things extra annoying. Also, as Prohyas often points out, radios don't exist in this world. | |
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Garfield from Garfield and Friends despises radio deejays. When Jon becomes one in "DJ Jon", it's played as Faux Horrific, and Garfield quickly works to get John fired. It certainly doesn't help that John starts neglecting his pets when he lets the job go to his head. | |
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Tropico 3: DJ Juanito. The expansion pack even gives you an option to shoot him. Betty Boom in the expansion, who runs the radio station of her very own La Résistance. |
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Radar from M*A*S*H becomes a bit of one in episode "Your Hit Parade". | |
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Ruby Rhod from The Fifth Element managed to be effeminate, sleazy, and hammy all at once. | |
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Bill Murray gets to wake up every day for the rest of his life to the sound of two yammering deejays in Groundhog Day. "Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today!" The first sign he's finally escaped the loop? Their spiel changes. | |
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Pokemon: Adventures in the Millennium has DJ scrtK1t1, an obnoxious masked DJ who's first appearance has him hosting a rave in the Oreburgh Mines that is so loud and bad that it threatens to cause a cave-in. | |
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My Hero Academia has the very loud and goofy Present Mic, who actually does host a radio show in while working at the UA. His Heterosexual Life-Partner Aizawa thinks Mic is an obnoxious loudmouth, but in reality Mic is a genuine Nice Guy who loves his job and is deeply (and sometimes violently) protective of his friends and students. | |
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Josh Weinstein, who performed Mystery Science Theater 3000's Tom Servo in the show's early seasons, has stated that his voice for the character was intended to sound like a Small Name, Big Ego radio DJ. | |
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I'm Alan Partridge: The title character may not be loud but he sure is just as obnoxious; including arguing with the content of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi", interrupting a debate with a farmer by making animal noises, continuously laughing to fill up the remaining seconds of his show, and getting into on-air spats with colleagues whilst handing over to them. | |
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In the Daria episode "Jake of Hearts", two wacky morning deejays ("Bing and the Spatula Man") set up camp for a week at Lawndale High, to Daria's obvious non-delight. Daria, who's been coping with her father's heart attack, proceeds to give them a bitter "The Reason You Suck" Speech that leaves the two so mortified, they pack up and leave. | |
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Elderly actor Byron Orlock suffers through an interview with one of these in the horror film Targets. | |
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The "Z105" skits on Saturday Night Live center on one of these, as played by Jimmy Fallon. This particular skitnote Note for non-Americans — the video is on Hulu, which means it can't be viewed outside America. has Ben Affleck as a fellow Dumbass DJ — and old college rival. They battle it out with their impressions: TuSpock ("Live large and prosper, Biotch"), Sherlock Homo ("Elementary, my queer Watson"), Man in the Can, Man in the Box, Sanjay, Rajneesh, the Gay Three Stooges, and of course, Andrea with the weather..."And we're baaaack!" Also the later B-108 Morning Show sketches, with Richard and The Buffalo (Taran Killam and Bobby Moynihan), two Pretty Fly for a White Guy jocks who host a hip-hop show on a small town Minnesota station. |
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Rockin' Roger from Suck, played by Henry Rollins and proving to be Too Dumb to Live when he insults the vampire band in his studio on air. | |
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One sketch on Robot Chicken had Dr. Ryan Stone accidentally call a couple of these while trying to reach NASA. | |
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From the Regular Car Reviews video on the 1994 Lincoln Town Car; | |
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Splatoon: DJ Octavio is a rare downright villainous example, putting out a droning dubstep beat on his turntable and spouting cheese all the while. Averted with Marina, the DJ half of Off the Hook. She's pretty soft-spoken and generally has a nervous air around her, in contrast to her rapper partner Pearl, who is loud and obnoxious enough for the both of them. |
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LoadingReadyRun They had one sketch about a pair of shock jock DJs doing a really dreadful morning show, with phone pranks failing, awful music and everything going wrong. Their boss comes in and announces he is the Devil and that they are in an Ironic Hell. Only he's just yanking their chain and it's just a bad morning. Only it is hell. Inverted in their series Qwerpline, in which G-Money seems pretty sensible and in Nsburg is almost certainly the sanest person there. His cohost A-Train has his quirks, but is still less crazy than almost everyone they interact with, and turns out to make a pretty good alderman after being accidentally elected. |
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Random Assault: Andy closing song on episode 27 was the pinnacle of this. | |
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A Judge Dredd comic centers around a DJ who keeps hearing voices in his head telling him that nobody likes him and he should kill himself, until finally he breaks down and does it. The coroner investigating his death explains that he was a dormant esper whose psychic powers were just surfacing, and the voices were what his listeners really thought of him. The coroner says the DJ didn't deserve to be hated that much... until he hears a recording of his radio show. Worse still, said DJ was able to air his show twenty four hours a day with the aid of a sleep machine and an extended mix of a particularly annoying record. Tales From The Black Museum expands on this with his sunglasses being a talisman that held onto his psychic essence after his death with the next poor guy, a singer, who wore them ending up taking on his personality, which infuriates the fans at his concert. | |
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In Hector: Badge of Carnage, ClapFM is run by one of these. Notable for his liberal and gratuitous use of canned farting sound effects. | |
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The South Park episode "Ass Burgers" from season 15 featured an annoying radio show called "Big Harry and Mike in the Morning". Presumably, Stan was the only one who found it intolerable since the major plot of the episode was his growing pessimism toward society. | |
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Alan J from Sega's Ferrari F355 Challenge and Top Skater is this in spades. He even references Outrun by saying that it's a brilliant song to drive to with a hot blonde in the car. | |
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The Serge Storms novel Hammerhead Ranch Motel had Boris The Hateful Piece Of Shit (Yes, that was his legal name, though the FCC required him to honk a foghorn when saying the last word when on the air). He was killed when Serge disguised himself as a lotion boy and slathered his body with homemade coconut oil-scented napalm. | |
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Homestar Runner: This is one of the stock radio personalities mocked by Strong Bad in the Strong Bad Email "radio". "The AM Morning Crude Crew" are depicted in a promotional picture as two copies of Strong Bad named "Stoops" (who has a fake arrow through his head) and "Gusso" (who is throwing up), and Strong Bad describes them as "bad stand-up comedians you can't heckle... or jeckle... or throw high-ball glasses at". Their delivery is punctuated by repeated canned laughter and stock "silly" sound effects. Even Homestar, who's normally at least half-reasonable, drunkenly shouts at his radio while the morning crew is on and ultimately throws a highball glass at it (despite Strong Bad saying you couldn't). Strong Bad also briefly makes Strong Sad act like a fast-talking shock-jock to demonstrate how radio DJs should sound nothing like their appearance would seem to suggest they sound. | |
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One episode of Family Guy has Brian get a radio show that displaces Dumbass DJs "Weenie and the Butt", whose show mercilessly abused prerecorded sound bites. His show starts off as the wannabe intellectual (but incredibly boring) The Lunch Hour, but at the prodding of Stewie and the executives turns it into "Dingo and the Baby", a definite example of Lowest Common Denominator (as seen when they have a bikini-clad woman attempt to catch hot dogs in her mouth to win a boob job). After Brian realizes what he's become and quits, the episode ends by showing that Cleveland and Quagmire have replaced them. | |
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Boyd Packer of Kriss Kross: Make My Video (played by Richard McGregor, writer/director of Banged Out) is a huge fan of the duo who seemingly just has a show where he takes listener requests for what sort of music video the duo should get. He mugs for the camera with various toys and has a fair bit of snark for his fans, along with the player's work. | |
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One episode of Night Visions was about a particularly mean-spirited and arrogant Dumbass DJ, who had a disturbed Serial Killer caller he insulted and hung up on break into his radio station and harass him for the explicit purpose of taking the asshole down a peg. Thanks to being too much of an arrogant jackass to realize something was wrong until it was too late, he winds up being murdered. | |
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The two DJs in Dead Air (2009) start out like this, until a zombie apocalypse gets going outside their studio. They drop the dumbass, insulting schtick once they realize that something really nasty is actually going on. | |
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Frasier has the radio station hire two of these (known as "Carlos and the Chicken") in one episode. Frasier is the butt of their increasingly mean-spirited phone pranks and when he's had enough he decides to shame them on-air with a speech quoting numerous literary wits. Everyone warns him that he'll only embarrass himself further, but luckily for Frasier he accidentally sets them to arguing with each other simply by offhandedly referring to Carlos as the straight man. The pair publicly split up, and when he tries to continue one of them snaps that he went to college and already knows what Frasier's trying to say, then hits his Berserk Button by correcting Frasier's French pronunciation. | |
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Harry Enfield and Chums: Harry Enfield's sketch comedy characters Smashie and Nicey combine this with aging rock star syndrome. The characters made that much of an impact, they were namechecked by the BBC Radio 1 station manager when tasked with rejuvenating the station's image. | |
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